This is just going to be a very brief post where I explain my current preference for Spanish-language news as a source of material to learn Spanish from. It applies more to those at an intermediate or higher (B1 and up I'd say) than to beginners, though...

I love these "learn Spanish from ___" series I do, they're great for generating short, quality blog posts when I'm equally short on ideas for new content, plus they're immediately useful, quickly digestible, and direct, so people tend to like them. This...

I was contacted some months ago by the publisher of this, Amp Comics (check out their site there, they have other similar stuff if you like this), who had seen my post about learning Spanish from comics and knew I was a Garfield fan (have been since I was...

Professor Jason is a channel that just directly teaches Spanish (and some Brazilian Portuguese), that is you just get a series of Spanish lessons on particular subjects (e.g. preterite, subjunctive, irregular verb conjugations, etc.). There are many of...

This is the first in a series of posts I'll be doing where I cover as many great channels for learning Spanish on YouTube as I can find. There are many such channels and new ones are being created all the time, not just for Spanish but many other...

RTVE is Spain's state-owned corporate television station, very similar to the BBC in the U.K. or PBS here in the U.S. They're the largest and most popular broadcaster in Spain, and they show a wide variety of news, documentaries, fictional dramas, reality...

It's two-for-one day here on How to Learn Spanish! We're going to cover two phrases in one Learn Spanish for Real post, primarily because they both mean the same thing: something is really far away. For the curious, this is from the Sochi Winter Olympics,...

Literally, it means "this is an armed robbery", or more colloquially, "this is a stick-up". An "atraco" is a robbery or hold-up, "mano" as you likely know means "hand" (but note that it's feminine, so it's "la mano" not "el mano", that's why it's "a mano...

Who am I interested in? Which culture, which people do I want to learn about? That's it, simple, done. Yes, there are exceptions, people for whom it's not that simple - I'll get to that below - but that's what they are: exceptions. The single most...

Anki vs Memrise As many of you know - and many of you are as well - I'm a big fan of Anki. People have bugged me about Memrise for years now and, although I've used it a fair bit, I'd never gotten around to writing a proper review of it, so I thought I...

The tool in question is ReadLang, it works with any website in a variety of languages, and makes the process of learning new words from online text much easier than it was before, saving you massive amounts of time and effort. You click the word you don't...

Spanish MOOC is a supplementary beginner's Spanish course that I'm really impressed with, especially given that it's completely free. It's centered around popular Spanish-language YouTube videos like music videos from Shakira and Juanes, and the interface...

I've been wanting to write about the culture in other countries for a while now but wanted to wait until I actually started traveling to do so. I'm in Spain at the moment and have had just a ton of observations and interesting little insights into Spanish...

My first in-person language exchange was superb, if you can find a native speaker in your area to work with I can't recommend it enough. First face to face language exchange in Spain. A video posted by Andrew Tracey (@andrewhasacamera) on Sep 8, 2015 at...

Hey guys, just wanted to post this video for you that I made, I give you a quick (~10m) tour of my apartment so you can see what I'm getting for what I'm paying in this particular location. A couple of things to keep in mind: This is located in El Centro, that is the...

First: The problem isn't "speaking Spanish" (or not), it's speaking their Spanish, and fast enough. I found that I could pick up a Spanish paper (I prefer Heraldo because it's local) and easily and quickly read through any article and understand 98% of it...

Have you ever heard the expression "throw a shit-fit"? Well, regardless, you do now know how to say that in Spanish! ...and apparently it's available in t-shirt format, as you can see there on the left (that's what "cabreo de cojones" yielded on Google...

I have bought the tickets, booked the apartment (and paid the first month's rent), bought the necessary luggage, and I'm about to buy some train tickets to get from the airport in Barcelona where I'm arriving to the city where I'm staying for two months, which is......

Real quick I just thought I'd share with you an interesting new expression I learned today from one of my Spanish tutors, Silvia (she's very good, check her out if you're in the market!), when I realized it would make a great 3rd installment in our Learn...

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